Biography and education
Postdoc: NASA Astrobiology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., 2022, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
M.S., 2018, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
B.S., 2016, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Ph.D., 2022, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
M.S., 2018, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
B.S., 2016, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Sobol, M. S., & Martinez-Gutierrez, C. (n.d.). Tracing ancient life through the genomic record. Journal of Applied Microbiology.
- Sobol, M. S., Ané, C., McMahon, K. D., & Kaçar, B. (2026). Ecological constraints and evolutionary trade-offs shape nitrogen fixation across habitats. ISME Communications. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycag007
- Jones, C. L., Camps-Castella, J., Smykala, M., Sobol, M. S., & Inomura, K. (2024). Seeing through the gray box: an integrated approach to physiological modeling of phytoplankton stoichiometry. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1505025
- Sobol, M. S., Garcia, A. K., An\’e, C\’ecile, & Kacar, B. (2024). Evolutionary and ecological diversity of nitrogen fixation. In The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2024 (209th ed., pp. 227--209). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024absc.conf00951S/abstract
- Garcia, A. K., Sobol, M. S., & Kacar, B. (2024). The natural history of biological molybdenum usage. In The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2024 (pp. 311--01). Retrieved from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024absc.conf99223G/abstract
Featured service activities
- Member
NSF RCN Nitrogen Fixation Across Aquascapes
- Volunteer
Skype-A-Scientist
- Member
NASA ICAR Metal Utilization and Selection Across Eons (MUSE)
- Reviewer / Referee
Communications Biology Journal
- Reviewer / Referee
Astrobiology Journal
- Reviewer / Referee
Biotechnology Advances Journal
